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File #: FBZN-25-0001    Version: 1 Name: Early Connections Learning Center
Type: Planning Case Status: Passed
File created: 4/15/2025 In control: Downtown Review Board
On agenda: 5/6/2025 Final action: 5/6/2025
Title: An FBZ Minor Improvement Plan to allow for the conversion of an existing two-story building into an early childhood education center including fa?ade enhancements, as well as exterior and landscaping improvements with an associated warrant to allow a five (5') fence within the common lawn lot frontage typology on a .65 acre lot zoned FBZ-CEN (Form-Based Zone Central) located at 415 Sahwatch St. (Quasi-Judicial). Presenter: Johnny Malpica, AICP, Senior Comprehensive Planner, Urban Planning Division
Sponsors: Planning Department
Attachments: 1. Early Connections Learning Center - Staff Report Draft - JPM, 2. Figure 1 - Site Plan, 3. Figure 2 - Project Statement

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An FBZ Minor Improvement Plan to allow for the conversion of an existing two-story building into an early childhood education center including façade enhancements, as well as exterior and landscaping improvements with an associated warrant to allow a five (5') fence within the common lawn lot frontage typology on a .65 acre lot zoned FBZ-CEN (Form-Based Zone Central) located at 415 Sahwatch St. (Quasi-Judicial).

 

  Presenter: 

Johnny Malpica, AICP, Senior Comprehensive Planner, Urban Planning Division

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Recommended Action

  Proposed Motions:

 

1.                     Approve the application as submitted based on the finding that the Warrant criteria in Section 5.4.3. of the Form-Based Code is being met. The motion includes the requirement to work with Staff to implement one remaining technical modification.

-                     Technical Modification:

o                     Resubmit the plan depicting a sidewalk along Sahwatch Street that meets Development Review requirements and adjust the final landscape plan as needed.

 

2.                     Deny the application as submitted based on the finding that the Warrant criteria in Section 5.4.3. of the Form-Based Code are not met.

 

 

 

 

 

 



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